Chemical Properties
clear colorless to yellow liquid
Uses
Intermediates of Liquid Crystals
Uses
It can be used to produce 1,1'-p-phenylene-bis-ethanone. This reaction will need reagent air, cobalt naphthenate. The reaction temperature is 125°C.
General Description
4-Ethylacetophenone is one of the attractive components of a carob-peanut extract that elicited a positive behavioral response from
Oryzaephilus surinamensis, S. granarius and
C. ferrugineus.
Synthesis
4-Ethylacetophenone is prepared from para-Ethylphenol plus Acetylchloridewith Aluminum chloride in an inert solvent (Fnedel-Craft’s reaction).